{"id":354,"date":"2005-07-02T15:52:44","date_gmt":"2005-07-02T10:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/07\/02\/how-bad-are-our-newspapers\/"},"modified":"2005-07-02T15:52:44","modified_gmt":"2005-07-02T10:22:44","slug":"how-bad-are-our-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200507\/how-bad-are-our-newspapers\/","title":{"rendered":"How bad are our newspapers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most newspapers have reported that Imrana has been asked to <i>marry<\/i> her Father-in-law. I don&#8217;t think that is correct.  Or, to be precise, I would be very surprised if it was correct. In Islamic law, they have a concept of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahram\">Mahram<\/a>. A father-in-law is &#8220;Mahram&#8221; to a woman (i.e. cannot ever get married to her because of her relationship with her husband. ) The problem seems to be that because of the rape, the husband too has become Mahram to her. This last point is, admittedly a leap of logic.But as I understand, once a Mahram, you are always a Mahram. So, I think that all they&#8217;ve done is pronounced her marriage void. This doesn&#8217;t make much difference to the cruelty that she is being subject to, but it does tell you how much effort reporters put into getting their facts right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most newspapers have reported that Imrana has been asked to marry her Father-in-law. I don&#8217;t think that is correct. Or, to be precise, I would be very surprised if it was correct. In Islamic law, they have a concept of Mahram. A father-in-law is &#8220;Mahram&#8221; to a woman (i.e. cannot ever get married to her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}